On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:26:38 -0500, Lizette Koehler wrote: > >I think it was amazing that IBM was able to eliminate the need for >DCB=(xxxxx) and just let us use the subparms. > My conjecture is that the UNIX file systems provided the impetus for this. The designers wanted to allow RECFM, LRECL, and BLKSIZE with PATH=, but prohibit other subparameters. There was no mechanism to make one parameter mutex with a subparameter of a different parameter, and it was easier to allow the bare attributes than to devise the needed mutex.
Or does the chronology and other evidence refute this? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
